I is the ninth letter of the alphabet. It can also refer to:

  • I (pronoun), the first-person singular pronoun


  • In astronomy:
  • ''i'', the symbol for orbital inclination

  • I, in the Yerkes spectral classification scheme the symbol for supergiants


  • In chemistry:
  • I, the symbol for iodine on the periodic table

  • I, the symbol for isoleucine in biochemistry


  • In economics:
  • i, the symbol for the interest rate

  • I, the symbol for investment


  • In genetics:
  • Haplogroup I (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup

  • Haplogroup I (Y-DNA), a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup


  • In mathematics:
  • 1 (number) in Roman numerals

  • ''i'', the imaginary unit for which i2 = -1

  • ''I'' (or ''I''''n''), an identity matrix of indeterminate size (or of size ''n'')

  • ''i'', an index variable in a matrix

  • ''I''''x''(''a'',''b''), the regularized incomplete beta function (of a variable ''x'' and parameters ''a'',''b'')

  • ''I'', the closed unit interval which contains all real numbers from 0 to 1 inclusive

  • {\hat{\imath}} (pronounced "i-hat"), the unit vector along the x-axis in Cartesian coordinates


  • In music:
  • I, a diatonic function in tonal music theory

  • ''I'' (album), the debut album of Kurt Nilsen

  • I (band), a band formed by members of Immortal and Enslaved

  • ''I'' (Cilvaringz album), the debut album of Wu-Tang Clan affiliate producer Cilvaringz

  • ''I'' (EP), an EP by Meshuggah

  • ''I'' (Magnetic Fields album), an album by the Magnetic Fields

  • ''I'', a song on ''Dehumanizer'', an album by Black Sabbath


  • In physics:
  • ''I'' and ''i'', symbols for electric current signals in electronic engineering

  • ''I'', the moment of inertia


  • In computer programming:
  • i, a common generic index variable often used for looping constructs

  • <i>, an HTML element for marking italic type

  • .i, the common filename extension for a file that contains the output from a preprocessor.


  • In radio and television:
  • i (TV network), the former name of ION Television

  • I band, the range of radio frequencies from 8 GHz to 10 GHz in the electromagnetic spectrum

  • I, the ITU prefix allocated to Italy in radio communication

  • I, in QAM modulation schemes, the in-phase communications channel

  • ''I'', in the YIQ colorspace commonly used with the NTSC television encoding scheme, the color-difference channel which is in-phase with the subcarrier


  • Other uses:
  • I (kana), one of the Japanese kana that each respresent one mora

  • I, the symbol for Italy in the list of international license plate codes

  • /i/, and , in the International Phonetic Alphabet, the three forms of the letter I

  • Mitsubishi i, a Japanese ''kei car''

  • I, a character in Adventure into Fear who acted as a guide for Morbius, the Living Vampire

  • Lowercase i prefix, a common prefix used by Internet and electronic companies

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